Along with former Opsware CEO and Netscape exec Ben Horowitz, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen invested in live-streaming-over-cell-phones site Qik, joining the company's board of advisors. Until now Qik was best known for its footage of Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis versus Tesla founder Elon Musk in a street race and Digg cofounder Kevin Rose's dodgeball triumphs. Andreessen's Qik stream, embedded below, is much less entertaining. Nobody's saying how much Horowitz and Andreessen invested in the startup -- VentureBeat calls i... lire la suite
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Along with former Opsware CEO and Netscape exec Ben Horowitz, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen invested in live-streaming-over-cell-phones site Qik, joining the company's board of advisors. Until now Qik was best known for its footage of Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis versus Tesla founder Elon Musk in a street race and Digg cofounder Kevin Rose's dodgeball triumphs.
Here's what you really need to know about Ning, according to Fast Company writer Adam Penenberg. Its chairman, Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, has an egg-shaped head. Its CEO, Gina Bianchini, who posed for Fast Company's cover in a tank top, is a "hottie. And Ning, a provider of websites for niche social networks, is poised to hit "critical mass" and "no one can stop it.
Marc Andreessen has been invited to join the board at eBay. The online auction company has been struggling of late, never mind CEO John Donahoe's assertion that what's bad for the American economy is good for eBay. Andreessen, probably smelling the stink blowing in from the rising tide, stockpiled enough venture capital to last Ning through a "nuclear winter.
Every time Marc Andreessen steps away from his desk, disaster abounds. For the father of the Netscape browser, the creator of the Web as we know it, the legendary barefoot geek from the magazine covers, expectations are way too high. And so the disappointments pile up. The Andreessen of today is not the Marc we remember.
Unlike the NASDAQ and S&P, venture capital returns were positive for the 12-months ended June 30, according to a Monday report from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. Still, venture performance declined from the first quarter of the year, signaling trouble to come.
If these conclusions are valid for the American context, this might not be true for the European. Not that the continent will be immune from the recession, but its specific configuration should at least trigger a step back to reflect on the consequences. European VC is born out of a recession
Ning, the social-network software maker cofounded by Marc Andreessen, appears to get substantial traffic from adult-oriented websites it hosts. CPM Advisors notes that some of Ning's top networks. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
HBM BioVentures, the Swiss biotech and medical-device investor with about $1 billion in net assets, soon expects to go public in a rare move for a venture capital firm. HBM has yet to disclose how much it intends to raise or other details of the offering, but the company’s chief financial officer, Joachim Rudolf, said it intends go public on the SWX Swiss Exchange this quarter.
Why doesn't venture capitalt get involved in the porn business? It's not because of morals: This is Sand Hill Road we're talking about. The real problem, reports AVN, is that porn deals are too. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, who now runs social networks for porn sites, doesn't think that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal bodes ill for startups. True, there will be one less buyer out there if. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
David Hornik is a secretive sort; the venture capitalist tried (and failed) to keep his invite-only Lobby conference off the record. Even when he wants to expose himself, he stays guarded. At a SXSW. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
Venture capital is on the move — to New Mexico, Pittsburgh and points beyond. A new survey shows that venture capital investment –- the stuff that fuels technology innovation -– is growing in parts of the country where it has been largely unapparent. The survey from the National Venture Capital Association, based on data provided by Thomson Financial, found that while Silicon Valley remains the hotbed of seed capital, other regions are seeing it grow more quickly.
Best Buy leveraging its business acumen into the exciting field of venture capital investing. Called Best Buy Capital, it will, according to several job postings, "serve as a source of innovative growth options for the enterprise rooted in smaller, more innovative, and potentially disruptive opportunities.
There’s been a marked drop in the number of venture capitalists raising money. But the drop doesn’t signify economic troubles for the industry, nor is it a function of a recession, according to members of the industry. The numbers are these: In the first quarter of this year, 57 venture firms raised $6.
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, left bored by running a social-networking startup, has much time on his hands to write excellent analyses of the tech industry. His blog post on why Microsoft-Yahoo might fall apart seems prescient in the wake of that deal's failure. But there's one odd thing about his writeup.
By offering a suite of tools for websites to add a social network layer, Google isn't challenging established players like Facebook and MySpace, but instead sites offering customizable, turnkey social networks. In other words, look out, Marc Andreessen: Larry and Sergey just declared themselves the Microsoft to Ning's Netscape.
Hewlett-Packard has software to automate datacenters; EDS has datacenters which need automating. That's part of the logic behind HP's $13. billion acquisition of the tech-services business. The deal proves that Marc Andreessen is prescient. After he sold Netscape to AOL, Andreessen launched LoudCloud, a website-hosting business powered by advanced software.
As I reported Saturday, venture capitalists experienced a very poor second quarter. The industry's trade association said Tuesday that for the first time since 1978, not a single venture-backed company went public in the quarter. From the perspective of the venture capital industry, it turns out that the news was worse than I reported.
Ken Schachter submits: As in the Jean-Paul Sartre play “No Exit,” venture capitalists are facing an existential dilemma. They are funding and developing companies with no immediate path to reward their limited partner investors. In the second quarter not a single venture-backed company staged an initial public offering, the first time in 30 years that there was a complete shutout, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
Shall we all pretend to be shocked by a new study that shows that the venture-capital industry is overwhelmingly — no, disgustingly white and male? A National Venture Capital Association survey found that 88 percent of general partners — the people who can actually greenlight an investment at a firm — are white, and 86 percent are male.